Listen up you little dice monkies

[Brandigan]

What's the best way to generate a number from 1 to 13 using dice without having to whittle a d13? Thanks!

 

[hong]

Roll a d26, and halve the result.

 

[Thanee]

Just roll a d20 and repeat if you roll 14+.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

2d7-1?

 

[Thanee]

Sorry, but that wouldn't work. You know about the bell curve concept?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

He didn't say he wanted an even spread, just a number between 1 and 13.

 

[Majere]

13 is a prime number
It cant be broken down into a number of smaller dice rolls that give an even spread.

Roll a d20 and reroll anything over 14 is the best bet with standard dice

Majere

 

[Darklone]

d6+d8-1. What's the problem???

 

[Christian]

Here's a general useful trick that easily generates Darklone's answer-look at the ranges of your dice. Eg. a d6 generates numbers from 1 to 6, a five-point range, etc. When you compare ranges, it's pretty easy to see what dice add up to the correct range, then you can work out the plus or minus to add the to total dice roll to get the absolute number range you need. For example, suppose you need to generate a roll of 6-29 (for God-knows-what reason). That's a 23-point range. Looking down our list of dice, it's not hard to see a couple ways to get that-d12 (11 points) + d8 (7 points) + d6 (5 points) = 23 point range. That ends up being 3-26; so d12 + d8 + d6 + 3 gives us the 6-29 roll we were looking for. Easy!

 

[Thanee]

He didn't say he wanted an even spread, just a number between 1 and 13.

Heh. That's right, but I guess it can be assumed.

Bye
Thanee